Yemen has won a $2.3bn loan from the World Bank and a long list of donors to help it support a three-year anti-poverty campaign - and by extension, fight the causes of terror and insecurity.

The announcement of the money followed a meeting in Paris to report on the country's development plans, and comes two weeks after an explosion on a French tanker off Yemen which many believe was a terrorist attack.

The Limburg explosion has harmed Yemen's image

The new money will partly help redress what Yemen sees as an imbalance in aid.

Despite deep-seated problems, and a per capita income of just $450 a year, Yemen said it received only a fifth of the average support for low income countries.